Our Minds Quotes
908 Our Minds quotes by 670 unique authors
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In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the…
— Sam Harris
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In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
— Antonin Artaud
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love…
— Graham Greene
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There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge,…
— James Frey
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We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our…
— Charles Frazier
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Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The…
— Roland Barthes
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Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside…
— Julie Andrews
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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and…
— William Butler Yeats
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. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they…
— Richard Paul Evans
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Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being…
— John Ortberg
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The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.
— Ravi Zacharias
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Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.
— Dan Brown
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you…
— Anais Nin
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Work is an antidote for anxiety, and ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. Whatever our circumstances in life, my dear brethren, let us…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as…
— Joseph Campbell
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the…
— Galileo Galilei
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